Exodus 12:21 - 12:51
Chapter 12
21. Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, “Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, and kill the Passover.
22. You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two door posts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
23. For יהוה will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two door posts, יהוה will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.
24. You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever.
25. It shall happen when you have come to the land which יהוה will give you, as he has promised, that you shall keep this service.
26. It will happen, when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’
27. that you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of יהוה’s Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.’ The people bowed their heads and worshiped.
28. The children of Israel went and did so; as יהוה had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
29. At midnight, יהוה struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of livestock.
30. Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
31. He called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, “Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve יהוה, as you have said!
32. Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!”
33. The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, “We are all dead men.”
34. The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.
35. The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing.
36. יהוה gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They plundered the Egyptians.
37. The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, in addition to children.
38. A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much livestock.
39. They baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought out of Egypt; for it wasn’t leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and couldn’t wait, and they had not prepared any food for themselves.
40. Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.
41. At the end of four hundred thirty years, to the day, all of יהוה’s armies went out from the land of Egypt.
42. It is a night to be much observed to יהוה for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is that night of יהוה, to be much observed by all the children of Israel throughout their generations.
43. יהוה said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner shall eat of it,
44. but every man’s servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it.
45. A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.
46. It must be eaten in one house. You shall not carry any of the meat outside of the house. Do not break any of its bones.
47. All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
48. When a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, and would like to keep the Passover to יהוה, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it. He shall be as one who is born in the land; but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.
49. One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you.”
50. All the children of Israel did so. As יהוה commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
51. That same day, יהוה brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
Numbers 28:16 - 28:25
Chapter 28
16. “ ‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is יהוה’s Passover.
17. On the fifteenth day of this month shall be a feast. Unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days.
18. In the first day shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work,
19. but you shall offer an offering made by fire, a burnt offering to יהוה: two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old. They shall be without defect,
20. with their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil. You shall offer three tenths for a bull, and two tenths for the ram.
21. You shall offer one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs;
22. and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you.
23. You shall offer these in addition to the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering.
24. In this way you shall offer daily, for seven days, the food of the offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to יהוה. It shall be offered in addition to the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.
25. On the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.
Haftarah
Joshua 5:2 - 6:1
Chapter 5
2. At that time, יהוה said to Joshua, “Make flint knives, and circumcise again the sons of Israel the second time.”
3. Joshua made himself flint knives, and circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
4. This is the reason Joshua circumcised them: all the people who came out of Egypt, who were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness along the way, after they came out of Egypt.
5. For all the people who came out were circumcised; but all the people who were born in the wilderness along the way as they came out of Egypt had not been circumcised.
6. For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness until all the nation, even the men of war who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they didn’t listen to יהוה’s voice. יהוה swore to them that he wouldn’t let them see the land which יהוה swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
7. Their children, whom he raised up in their place, were circumcised by Joshua, for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them on the way.
8. When they were done circumcising the whole nation, they stayed in their places in the camp until they were healed.
9. יהוה said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” Therefore the name of that place was called Gilgal to this day.
10. The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal. They kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho.
11. They ate unleavened cakes and parched grain of the produce of the land on the next day after the Passover, in the same day.
12. The manna ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of the produce of the land. The children of Israel didn’t have manna any more, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
13. When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood in front of him with his sword drawn in his hand. Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us, or for our enemies?”
14. He said, “No; but I have come now as commander of יהוה’s army.”
Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshiped, and asked him, “What does my lord say to his servant?”
15. The prince of יהוה’s army said to Joshua, “Take off your sandals, for the place on which you stand is holy.” Joshua did so.
Chapter 6
1. Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Israel. No one went out, and no one came in.
